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The Delivery Man

  1. Button My Lip
  2. Country Darkness
  3. There's A Story In Your Voice
  4. Either Side Of The Same Town
  5. Bedlam
  6. The Delivery Man
  7. Monkey To Man
  8. Nothing Clings Like Ivy
  9. The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love
  10. Heart Shaped Bruise
  11. She's Pulling Out The Pin
  12. Needle Time
  13. The Judgement
  14. The Scarlet Tide
  15. The Monkey

Button My Lip

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

The whole song is one chord:  F#

Country Darkness

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

Riff [A] [D][E][E/B][A]                                                 
(The "B" bass note is a very quick note right after the E chord)        
																																				
Intro: Riff 3x                                                          
																																				
This tattered document [Riff][Bm][C#m]                                  
[E] A mystery you can [C#m] solve [F#][G#][C#m]                         
Some burnt out [E] filament [E][B7][E]                                  
[E] Flies still buzzing around the [Bm] bulb [C#m][Bm]                  
																																				
[E] Country [Bm] Darkness [C#m][Bm]                                     
																																				
[Riff]                                                                  
He thought of traveling [Riff][Bm][C#m]                                 
[E] Heard an approaching [C#m] train [F#][G#][C#m]                      
Drown out his desperate [E] pulse [E][B7][E]                            
[E] A song with no [Bm] refrain [C#m][Bm]                               

[E] Country [Bm] Darkness [C#m][Bm]                                     
																																				
[D] She [Bm] daydreams of [A]forbidden sins                             
There must be [A] some[A/B]thing [A/C#]more                             
[D] The prison she [B7]lives in                                         
The [G] one with the open [E]door                                       
																																				
[C] [F] [Dm] [E] [A]                                                    
																																				
[Riff]                                                                  
The veil is covering [Riff][Bm][C#m]                                    
[E] A glistening and cruel [C#m] blade [F#][G#][C#m]                    
Suffer little [E] children [E][B7][E]                                   
Repent, unfaithful [Bm] maid [C#m][Bm]                                  
																																				
[E] Country [Bm] Darkness [C#m][Bm]                                     

There's A Story In Your Voice

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

[G] Once [C] upon [G] another time
[G] If you [C] had the [G] need
I'd [D] step right in the [A] shoes that you've been [D] walking [G][D]
[G]'Cos someone [C] put the [G] hurt in you
[G] For every [C] one to [G] see
And you [D] only have to [A] speak to tell your [D] fortune [G][D]
 
There's a [G] story in your [G7] voice
Both by [C] damage and by [Am] choice
It tells of [G] promises [C] and [G] pleasure
And a [G] tale of [C] wine and [G] woe
The [G] uneasy [C] time to [G] come
[D] And the long way [A] 'round we go to [D] get there [G][D]
 
Once you told me fairytales
Everybody knows
But I didn't care for their prediction
Now you say you're leaving me
And packing up your clothes
I finally see you were a work of fiction
 
There's a story in your walk
Then you crumble just like chalk
And I could say that I was sorry
But I wouldn't mean it much
There are pages I can't touch
And something that's been torn out of this chapter
 
[C] Far away, not far enough
[G]'Cos I can still recall
[D]How it felt when I read that last [G] sentence [/a][/b]
[C]Now I go inside some rooms with [G]Gideon in [G/F#]them [Em] all
And [A] hide myself from all hope of [D] repentance
 
There's a story in your eyes
Cheap sunglasses might disguise
But when the bedroom light reveals
All that bravado and that fright
That you cover up in spite
Attempts to strip away this fabrication
 
There's a story in your voice
Both by damage and by choice
It tells of promises and pleasure
And a tale of wine and woe
The uneasy time to come
And the long way 'round we go to get there

Either Side Of The Same Town

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

[G] Nothing will [Em] ever be the [G] same [G][Gsus][G]
All of the [Em] promises we made seem [G] hollow
But there are [Am] still streets in this town
[G] Marked [C] with your shadow [G]
 
So if you see me, [Em] look surprised [G][Gsus][G]
If you [Em] don't, then [G] pass me by
And I [Am] may even touch your sleeve
[G] [C] As you [G] turn to leave [/a][/b]

Now it's [C] hard to act like [Em] strangers
When we [F] used to be so [Dm] strong
[C/G] Everything is [Em] changing
[F] And most of it is [Dm] wrong
[G] What do we know of [E7] anything?
Two [Am] fools of [G] some [F] renown
[D7] Either [C] side, either [G] side of the same [Am] town [G][F]
[D7] Either [C] side, either [G] side of the same [C] town [F][F/E][C]
 
Somewhere, there's a light
I can sense it
Oh, though I may fall back again
Although it's a fight
I know I must remain
 
Now it's hard to keep ignoring
Someone you recognize
And if I seem contented
It's only my disguise
What do we know of anything?
Two fools of some renown
Either side of the same town

Bedlam

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

Main Riff
D -------2-4-4>5-5-5-5p4p2--------2-4-2--
A -0-0-0--------------------0-0-0---------
 
 
A7 xxx989
Where there is "No Chord' [N.C.] just rake the strings percussively.
 
Intro: Main Riff 2x
 
I've got this [A7] phosphorescent portrait of gentle [A7] Jesus meek and mild
I've got this [A7] harlot that I'm stuck with carrying [A7] another man's child
The solitary [A7] star announcing vacancy burnt [A7] out as we arrived
They'd throw us [A7] back across the border if they [A7] knew that we survived
And they [D]were surprised to see us
So they [F#m] greeted us with palms
They [D] asked for ammunition, acts of [F#m] contrition and small alms
 
[N.C.] I might recite a small prayer
If I ever said them
I [D] lay down on an iron frame
[F#m] Found myself in bedlam
[N.C.] I wish that I could take something for drowning out the noise
[D] Wailing echoes down the corridors
 
Main Riff 2x
 
I've got this [A7] imaginary radio, and I'm [A7] punching up the dial
I've got the [A7] A.C. trained on the T.V. so it won't [A7] blow up in my eye
And every[A7]thing that I thought fanciful and [A7] mocked as too extreme
Must be [A7] family entertainment here in the [A7] strange land of my dreams
Now I'm [D] practicing my likeness of [F#m] St. Francis of Assisi
For [D] if I hold my hand outstretched
A [F#m] little bird comes to me
 
[N.C.] I might recite a small prayer
If I ever said them
I [D] lay down on an iron frame
[F#m] Found myself in bedlam
[N.C.] Escaping from the fingers that were stretching through the bars
[D] Wailing echoes down the corridors
 
Main Riff 2x
 
[E] The player piano picks out "Life Goes On"
Ring tone rang out "Jerusalem"
And in this pit of sadness
Where the rank of wretched plunge
We've buried all the innocents
Now we must bury revenge
 
Main Riff 2x
 
They've got this [A7] scared and decorated girl strapped to the [A7] steel trunk of a mustang
And then they [A7] drove her down a cypress grove where traitors [A7] hang and stars still spangle
They dangled [A7] flags and other rags along a [A7] coloured thread of twine
And then they dragged that [A7] bruised and purple heart along the [A7] road to Palestine
 
[D] Someone went off muttering, he [F#m] mentioned thirty pieces
[D] Easter saw a slaughtering, each [F#m] wrapped in bloodstained fleeces
 
Then my [D] thoughts returned to vengeance, but I [F#m] put up no resistance
Though I [D] seemed a long way from my home
It [F#m] really was no distance
 
[N.C.] And I might recite a small prayer
If I ever said them
I [D] lay down on an iron frame
[F#m] Found myself in bedlam
[N.C.]Bowing like an actor acknowledging applause
Playing the Crusader who was conquering the Moors
And he knew the consequences, but he won't accept the cause
[D] Wailing echoes down the corridors
 
Main Riff

The Delivery Man

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

For the verse chords, play the bass strings only.  This version is in
standard tuning; the version on the album is not.
 
[E] "Abel was able," so Vivian [A] said
Her [B] shoulders flung forward
Her lips in a [E] purse
She talks like the beauty that she never [A] was
Of the [B] fabulous wild nights that she never [E] has
 
In a certain [D] light he looked like [E] Elvis
In a certain [D] way he feels like [E] Jesus
[E] Everyone dreams of him just as they [A] can
But he's [B] only the humble Delivery [E] Man
 
G ----12-10-7-9-----14?-12-10-7-9-----14
 
[E] Geraldine blushes and brushes [A] away
The [B] cigarette ashes that Vivian [E] scatters
Stares out of the window at the things that she [A] says
While [B] gossip within her competes with the [A] widow

Ever since he's [D] gone, she feels like [E] crying all the time
She knows for [D] sure Vivian is [E] lying
Now she has a daughter to raise as she [A] can
She [B] just wouldn't trust that Delivery [E] Man
 
G ----12-10-7-9-
 
[C] Ivy puts down the [Am] ghost story she's reading
Looks [G] up at that face on the wall

G -12-10-7-9-
 
[C] Thinking about how her [Am] father lay [G] bleeding
[C] Shot in the back 'cos [Am] orders were [G] misleading
And how a [C] flag and a medal don't [Am] have any meaning
 
On the [E] 5th of July as they tore down the [A] fair
And he'd [B] seen all the local girls who were worth [E] kissing
With the smell of the gunpowder still in the [A] air
They [B] noticed that Abel and Ivy were [E] missing
 
In a certain [D] light he looked like [E] Elvis
In a certain [D] way he seemed like [E] Jesus
He said "Why can't we be kind to me like you were [A] meant to be?
When [B] they let me out, I had a brand new [E] identity.
Now everyone dreams of me just as they [A] can.
[B] I want to be your Delivery [E] Man."

Monkey To Man

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

Riff
E -----0-2-0-----0--
B -0-3-------3-3----
 
Dsus xx0332
 
[E]A long time ago, our point of view
Was broadcast by Mr. Bartholomew
And now the world is full of sorrow and pain
And it's time for us to speak up again
 
You're slack and sorry
Such an arrogant brood
The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food
We sit here staring at your pomp and pout
[A7] Outside the bars we use for keeping you out
 
[B7] You've taken everything that you wanted
Broke it up and plundered it and hunted
Ever since we said it
You went and took the credit
It's been [A7] headed this way since the world began
When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man
 
[E][E7][A][B7] Monkey to Man
 
Riff
 
[E]Every time man struggles and fails
He makes up some kind of fairytales
After all of the misery that he has caused
He [A7] denies he's descended from the dinosaurs
 
[B7]Points up to heaven with cathedral spires
All the time indulging in his base desires
Ever since we said it
He went and took the credit
It's been [A7] headed this way since the world began
When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man
 
[E][E7][A][B7] Monkey to Man
 
[D]Big [A] and useless as he has become
With his [D][A]crying statues and his flying bomb
[D]Goes [A]'round acting like the chosen one
[Dsus]Excuse us if we treat him like our idiot cousin

[E]He hangs up flowers and bells and rhymes
Hoping to hell someone's forgiven his crimes
Fills up the air with his pride and praise
He's a [A7] big disgrace to our beastly ways
 
[B7]In the fashionable nightclubs and finer precincts
Man uses words to dress up his vile instincts
Ever since we said it
He went and took the credit
It's been [A7] headed this way since the world began
When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man

Nothing Clings Like Ivy

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

[C] Nothing clings like [F] Ivy
Frightened [Am]by the dark
[E7]Though she cuts [A]deep
[Dm]It never leaves a [G] mark
 
No one quite like Ivy
Ever gets it straight
What she believes
She won't negotiate
 
[G] All the [G7]words of [C] tenderness [F]
That [G]never [D/F#] quite got [D/F]through
She [G] said "You [G7]know how [C] young girls [F]are
From [G] my contempt [D/F#] for [D/F] you."
 
Outside in the hollow
She may dare herself
For there may be
A serpent in the grass
 
Nothing clings like Ivy
Trying to scare herself
And it may strike or
Wait for her to pass
 
All the words of tenderness
That she never possessed
"So what's the use of promises?
I had my fingers crossed."
 
All the words of tenderness
That never quite got through
She said, "I laughed behind your back
When I told them to you."
 
Nothing clings like Ivy
Frightened by the dark
Though she cuts deep
It never leaves a mark

The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

Am      x02210
Am(sus) x02110
 
[Em]There's a part of this feeling that I just cannot kill
But the [Em] name of this [D] thing is not [G] love
And I [C]can't take a [Bm]potion, and I [Am]won't take a pill
So it [F#]tortures me [B7]still
But the [Em]name of this [D]thing is not [G]love
 
Then you [Am]start [Am(sus)]entertaining such a [Am]terrible
[Am(sus)]thought
Life is [Am]so very short
And the [Em]name of this [D]thing is not [G]love
 
There's a bruise on her arm
And some blood on the floor
But the name of this thing is not love
And they're taunting some girl
That they claim to adore
She can't take anymore
But the name of this thing is not love
 
Who in the world do you think that you are?
That you pushed me this far
But the name of this thing is not love
 
Bridge [C][Bm][Am][Bm] 2x
 
He [Dm]thinks of her still
Although [G]you'd never guess [/a][/b]
[C]He's trying [Dm]so to [B7]forget [C]her
The [Dm]occasional moments that [G]he'll always bless
[F]Watching her dress
[Dm]For worse or [G] better
 
He watched her pick over her broken playthings
What played on his mind is not love
The cast aside tokens and discarded rings
Over one of his flings
But the name of this thing is not love
 
Then he threw something down in the wild rushing river
And won't ever recover
But the name of this thing is not love
 
Then you start out pretending that you're so very tough
Life is not short enough
But the name of this thing is not love

Heart Shaped Bruise

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

[A]
 
Tell me [D]now
Or [G] are you only [D]teasing?
I felt the cold hard facts [F#m]of life
[G] Five degrees from [A]freezing
Does it [G]amuse you to always[A] hurt me [D]so?
I try my [G]best it's not enough
Should I [A]give up and let you?
 
[D]What more is there to [G]take from me?
There's nothing [D] else to [G]give you, dear
There's nothing [D] more that [G] I can lose
[C] Except this [D] Heart Shaped [G] Bruise
 
It will [C#m]fade
[A]From purple to[D] violet
It will [C#m]fade
[A]Just as the [D]day dissolves [G]into [A]twilight
 
Tell me now
Or am I only dreaming?
You said that you'd be mine for life
And now you say you're leaving
If I could hold you once more before you go
When I approach you just lash out
Should I give up and let you?
 
What more is there to take from me?
There's nothing else to give you, dear
There's nothing more that I can lose
Accept this Heart Shaped Bruise
 
It will fade from purple to violet
It will fade?
She's pulling out the pin

She's Pulling Out The Pin

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

Intro: [G][C][F] 2x
 
She's [G] pulling out the pin
[C] That lets her [F] hair fall [Bb] down
[Am] She shakes her [D] head and
[G] It goes tumbling
[C] Her smile was [F] out of [Bb] place
So she [Am] swept it off her [D7] face
 
[D7] Let me find the words and say them
Like some [D7] softly whispered Amen [Bb7]
 
As she [D#] starts to pull away
And the [Cm] lights begin to dim
Is she [Bb] thinking of me
Or is she [D7] thinking of him
She's [D#] pulling out the [Bb] pin
 
[G] She's slipping off the hook
[C] Unbutto[F]ning her [Bb] dress
[Am] There's just [D] enough to [G] make some man [/a] a [/b] mess
[C] She tears [F] away the [Bb] veil
[Am] With her finger[D7]nails
 
[D7] She came out high and kicking
While the band played "Hey good lookin'"
Do you hear something ticking? [Bb7]
 
[D#] Did somebody tell her?
You can [Cm] really be redeemed
[Bb] Could she actually be?
As [D7] desperate as she seems
She's [D#] tearing at the [Bb] seams
She's [D#] going to [Bb] extremes
Nobody [D#] told her it was a [Bb] sin
So she's [D#] pulling out the pin [D7]
 
[Eb][F][Bb][C][C][D7]
 
[G] She's taping up her hands
[C] Just as a [F] boxer [Bb] will
[Am] They started [D] laughing
[G] But if looks [/a] could [/b] kill
[C] She'd take them [F] down right [Bb] now
[Am] She's cover[D]ing her [G] mouth
With someone or [C] without
There's nothing [F] more to [Bb] say
This [Am]is her wedding [D7] day
 
[D7] Full of shattered glass and mayhem
Not one softly whispered amen [Bb7]
 
She's [D#] knocking down some doors
And the [Cm] smoke begins to fill
Where the [Bb] world without her ends
And the [D7] next one begins
She's [D#] pulling out the [Bb] pin

Needle Time

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

For the verse, alternate between [D] and [D7]
 
[D7] I wish that I didn't hate you
Least not as much as I do
And squander all my contempt for
A little nothing like you
[A7] Liars like you are [G7] ten-a-penny
[A7] Women would slap you, if you [G7]knew any

[D7] Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
 
[D7] I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense
These twenty-seven or so years
You'd think I (would have) made them some cents
[A7]Now they want me fingerprinted
[G7]Like I was smuggling drugs
[A7]While the government does deals with [G7] the most convenient thugs
 
[D7]Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
It's [G] Needle [D] Time

Riff
A  -?7-5?3-0-

I'm trying not to despise you with a passion that is hard to extinguish
Or maybe I really love you
Although it's hard to distinguish
 
I wish I could be
A little more like a saint is
Forgiving those who trespass against us
 
Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
 
I started talking nonsense, just like I did to begin with
Around the time I tired of those sour English
 
Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime
It's Needle Time

The Judgement

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

Riff: e -0-3-7-5-3-2-3-2-0-
 
The [C]accused will rise
[G]To be torn in two
[Am]Guilty of nothing but [F] loving you
This is the [C] Judgement [Em][C]
 
And I'm [Am] willing [G] to [C]plead
Now [Am] you don't [G] want [C] me
[Dm] Hoping this [C] torment will [G] cease
Will I be [C] released? [Em][C]
 
There'll be lies
There'll be tears
A jury of your peers
With the pitiful look of experience
Hand down the Judgement
 
And if I've done wrong
And loved you too long
Stand up and just testify
How can you deny it?
 
[F]Objection overruled
[C]I wait for my reprieve
[Dm]With trust of the deceived
[G]The wisdom of the fooled
 
Is his sorrowful face too heavy for his head?
'Cos he bowed it as something hung over him
It was the Judgement
 
And he falls to his knees
"Have mercy on me."
He clings to the hem of her gown
She says, "Just take him down."

The Scarlet Tide

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

This song is played on a ukulele in the key of D.  The easiest way to play
it on the guitar is w/a capo on the 7th fret and using the chords below.
 
 
[G][G/C][G]
 
Well, I [G]recall his [G/C]parting [G]words
Must I [G7]accept his [C]fate?
Or [D]take [G]myself far [C]from this [D]place
 
I thought I [G]heard a [G/C]black bell [G] toll
A little [G7]bird did [C]sing
[D]"Man has no [G]choice
When[C] he wants [D]everything."[G][G/C][G]
 
We'll rise above the [G/C]scarlet [G]tide
That trickles [G7]down through the [C]mountain
And[D] separ[G]ates the [C]widow [D]from the [G]bride[G/C][G]
 
Man goes beyond his [G/C]own [G]decision
Gets caught up [G7]in the [C]mechanism
Of [D]swindlers[G] who [C]act like [D]kings
And brokers [G]who break [C]everything[D]
 
The dark of [G]night was [G/C]swiftly [G]fading
Close to the [G7]dawn of [C] day
Why [D]would I [G]want him just to [C]lose him [G]again?[G/C][G]
 
We'll rise above the scarlet tide
That trickles down through the mountain
And separates the widow from the bride

The Monkey

Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg

Riff
A -0h1h2---
E -------0-
 
The whole song is the riff and then an [E/G#] played like this: xx6454